NECESSITY,
FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY: This administrative regulation provides definitions
of certain terms as used in 503 KAR Chapter 5, which pertains to the Law
Enforcement Program Foundation Fund. This administrative regulation also
repeals the administrative regulations previously in this chapter.

Section 1.
Definitions. The following definitions shall apply in this chapter:

(1)
"Cabinet" means the Kentucky Justice Cabinet.

(2)
"Secretary" means the Secretary of the Kentucky Justice Cabinet.

(3)
"Council" means the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council as established
in KRS 15.315.

(4)
"Fund" means the Law Enforcement Foundation Program Fund of the
Kentucky Justice Cabinet as established in KRS 15.430.

(5) "Fund
administrator" means the person responsible for administering the fund.
KRS 15.450(1) provides that the fund shall be administered by the secretary or
his designated representative.

(6)
"Salary supplement funds" means money disbursed from the fund to
local units of government for salary supplement purposes. A "salary
supplement" is the fund money disbursed by a local unit of government to
an individual police officer.

(7)
"Local unit" means the local unit of government of any city or
county, or any combination of cities and counties of the Commonwealth.

(8)
"Police officer" means a "full-time member" (defined in
subsection (9) of this section) of a "lawfully organized police
department" (defined in subsection (11) of this section) of county,
urban-county, or city government who is responsible for the prevention and
detection of crime and the enforcement of the general criminal laws of the
state, but does not include Kentucky State Police, any elected officer,
sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, deputy constable, district detective,
deputy district detective, special local peace officer, auxiliary police
officer or any other peace officer not specifically authorized in KRS 15.410 to
15.510.

(9)
"Full-time member" means a sworn police officer who is paid a salary
by the local unit for "working regularly" (defined in subsection (10)
of this section) as a law enforcement officer.

(10)
"Working regularly" means the officer is working a minimum of forty
(40) hours a week according to a uniform weekly schedule that is standard for
police officers employed by that employing agency. No local unit shall arrange,
by reduction of weekly hours or otherwise, the employment of a person who is
otherwise considered a police officer so as to subvert the intent and purpose
of KRS 15.410 to 15.510 or these administrative regulations.

(11)
"Lawfully organized police department" means a law enforcement unit
organized in accordance with statutory authority, and one which has a separate
and identifiable physical and management identity from other law enforcement
units, including a separate chief. (11 Ky.R. 1545; Am. 1778; eff. 5-14-85.)